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• a strength is that the research into misleading information has important practice uses in the criminal justice system. The consequences of inaccurate EWT can be serious and police have to be careful with their questions. This shows that psychologists can help to improve the way the legal system works especially by protecting innocent people from faulty convictions based on unreliable EWT
• however a weakness of real life application is that loftus and palmer watched film clips in a lab which is different to witnessing a real life event. Therefore the responses might have no real life impact so might not be how they would respond in a real life situations. Could be responding from demand characteristics
• a strength is that they used a lab experiment this means that the process was standardised and the variables were controlled which means it can be easily repeated. This increases the reliability of the experiment as there is scientific credibility